project35.soa.validation
Class DateValidator

java.lang.Object
  project35.soa.validation.AbstractEditFieldValidationService
      project35.soa.validation.DateValidator

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, ServiceClass, EditFieldValidationService, FieldValidationService

public class DateValidator
extends AbstractEditFieldValidationService

In Project35, the user can establish which format they want to use to express date values. These formats are supported:

• dd/MM/YYYY
• MM/dd/yyyy
• yyyy/MM/dd

The date values that appear in files always appear in a canonical date format.

Much of the validation behaviour depended on the SimpleDateFormat class features. However, the date format class had some shortcomings and didn't seem to do boundary checking on values for year, month or day. For example, you can accidentally enter "45" for a day number and it won't complain. This class does a lot of things the SimpleDateFormat class SHOULD have been doing but didn't.

Copyright (c) 2008 Kevin Garwood for Project35. The original code was developed by Kevin Garwood for the University of Manchester. Revisions have been made for Project35, a project that is independent of that institution. This code is licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0. The code attribution for the original code is included here:

Copyright (c) Kevin Garwood and University of Manchester 2007. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0. For more information on the terms and conditions, please see the file "LICENSE" that is included in this distribution.

Version:

1.0

Author:

Kevin Garwood (kgarwood@users.sourceforge.net)

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

static SimpleDateFormat	canonicalFormat format used to read/write date values from file
static SimpleDateFormat	ddmmyyyyFormat indicates DD/MM/YYYY format
static SimpleDateFormat	mmddyyyyFormat indicates MM/DD/YYYY format
static SimpleDateFormat	yyyymmddFormat indicates YYYY/MM/DD format

Fields inherited from class project35.soa.validation.AbstractEditFieldValidationService

collator

Constructor Summary

DateValidator()

Method Summary

static Date	getCanonicalDate(String date) string date
static SimpleDateFormat	getCanonicalFormat()
static String	getCanonicalValue(Date date)
static Date	getDate(String date)
static SimpleDateFormat	getDateFormat() gets the current date format
static String	getDateFormatString(SimpleDateFormat format)
static String	getDateValue(Date date) a date
static void	setDateFormat(SimpleDateFormat format) sets the date format used to do validation
static void	setDefaultDateFormat() sets date format to ddmmyyyy format
ArrayList	validate(Project35FormContext project35FormContext, String value) assumes that the string value passed to it will always be written in a canonical form.

Methods inherited from class project35.soa.validation.AbstractEditFieldValidationService

getFieldName, getInitialisationParameters, initialiseService, isEmpty, isFieldRequired, setFieldName, setRequiredField, validateRequiredField

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

canonicalFormat

public static final SimpleDateFormat canonicalFormat

format used to read/write date values from file

ddmmyyyyFormat

public static final SimpleDateFormat ddmmyyyyFormat

indicates DD/MM/YYYY format

mmddyyyyFormat

public static final SimpleDateFormat mmddyyyyFormat

indicates MM/DD/YYYY format

yyyymmddFormat

public static final SimpleDateFormat yyyymmddFormat

indicates YYYY/MM/DD format

Constructor Detail

DateValidator

public DateValidator()

Method Detail

getCanonicalDate

public static Date getCanonicalDate(String date)

string date

Returns:

Date object

getCanonicalFormat

public static SimpleDateFormat getCanonicalFormat()

Returns:

the canonical date format used for validation

getDateFormat

public static SimpleDateFormat getDateFormat()

gets the current date format

Returns:

the current date format

getDateFormatString

public static String getDateFormatString(SimpleDateFormat format)

Parameters:

format - returns the pattern corresponding to the date format

Returns:

the string representation of the date format pattern

getCanonicalValue

public static String getCanonicalValue(Date date)

Parameters:

date - a date object

Returns:

the formatted date value based on the canonical date format.

getDate

public static Date getDate(String date)

Parameters:

date - string representation of a date

Returns:

a date object

getDateValue

public static String getDateValue(Date date)

a date

Returns:

a formatted date value based on the current date format

setDateFormat

public static void setDateFormat(SimpleDateFormat format)

sets the date format used to do validation

Parameters:

format - the new date format used for validation

setDefaultDateFormat

public static void setDefaultDateFormat()

sets date format to ddmmyyyy format

validate

public ArrayList validate(Project35FormContext project35FormContext,
                          String value)

assumes that the string value passed to it will always be written in a canonical form.

Specified by:

validate in interface EditFieldValidationService

Specified by:

validate in class AbstractEditFieldValidationService

value - the value of the field

Returns:

a collection of Alert instances that represent errors,warnings,points of information or requests for more information if no errors were found